Motor-car.



UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT AUSTIN, OF ERDINGTON, NEAR BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

MOTOR-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 721,413, dated February 24, 1903.

Application filed April 23, 1902. Serial No, 104,409. (No model. i

showing the improved combination of mechanism; and Fig. 2 is a plan of the car with the body removed to expose the mechanism.

A horizontal motor A, having the axis of its shaft transverse to the longitudinal axis of the car and which is preferably duplex, as shown, is carried by transverse bearers a of the framing B of the car. A chain-wheel b on one end of the motor-shaft 0 drives a chainwheel (1 on a shaft 6 through the medium of a chain f. The shaft 6 is carried in bearings of a box 0. This shaft 6 answers to the shaft which is usually or frequently employed to carry the change-speed wheels, which are slid into and out of gear, respectively, with and from wheels of a parallel shaft 2', which is formed in two lengths geared together by differential or balance gear of anylusual or convenient construction, except that in this case the shafts e and i are transverse to the longitudinal axis of the car instead of parallelrespectively, by chains with sprocket-wheels h ofvthe road driving-wheels D.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patout, is-

A motor car or vehicle having a motor with its shaft 0 extending transversely of the axis of the vehicle, an intermediate or counter shaft e, parallel with the motor-shaft, chainwheels I) and d on the respective shafts, a chain f embracing said wheels through which the motor-shaft drives the counter-shaft, the shaft i parallel with the motor-shaft and in two alined lengths or parts, balance-gear connecting the parts of shaft 2', sprocket-wheels g on the respective lengths of the shaft 2',

'sprocketwheels h on the respective hind wheelsof'the vehicle, and chains for driving connecting the respective wheels 9 and h, substantially as set forth. r

In witness whereof Ihave hereunto signed my name, this 8th dayof April, 1902, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERBERTHAUSTIN.

Witnesses:

ROBERT G. GRovEs, THOMAS EDWIN CARLESS. 

